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Source: The Analytic Art

“It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.”

World Moments Stories Truth Certain Make Sense Truthful

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'”

Thinking Way Giving Certain Challenges Struggle Feet Giving Up Down And Perseverance My Way Knees Beaten Never Giving Up

Author:Randy Pausch

“I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.”

Knows Happens Certain Hope Miracle

Book:Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

Source: Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

“Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.”

Mean Use Certain Fun Dear Elephants Telephones Just For Fun Dear Me

Author:Laura E. Richards

“Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.”

Years Looks Remember Certain Music Painting Months Music Is Execution

Author:Robert Genn

“My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.”

Kind Hands Used Certain Technology Figures Painting Paint Screens Canvas Vans Woven Kinds Of Love Apps Juicy

Author:Robert Genn

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.”

Whole Hands Science Certain Parent Nature Natural Evolution All Things Creator Features

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.”

“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”

Art Said Done Certain Effort Attitude Opinion Grace Impression Accomplished Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

Mind Children Certain Grows Rocks Greatness Difficulty Aim Proportion Wrestling Nurse Harsh Athletic Foster Children Stature Impediments Grappling

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.”

Certain Driven Fanaticism

Book:There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts

Source: There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts

“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.”

Way Shows Truth Certain Rich Growing Honesty Amount Profession

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.”

War Certain Ability Military Importance Difficulty Superiors Commanders Firmness

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.”

May Mean Doe Ends Body Science Certain Knowledge Progress Development Accounts Intuition Intellect Poetic Endeavor Idle Certain Knowledge

Author:Max Planck

“When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.”

Certain Opinion Dangerous Consequence Philosophical Absurdity

Book:Moral Philosophy

Source: Moral Philosophy

“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”

Ifs Way Years Believe Kind Children Littles Play Certain Talking Audience Adults Don't Believe Reaching Talking Down

Author:Walt Disney

“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”

“The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.”

Way May Long Doe Facts Life Is Certain Evil Greater Danger Errors Expected Improvement Death Penalty

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

“The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.”

Law Science Certain Expression Quantum Hypothesis Equations Causality

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.”

People Writing Different Would Be Past Certain Church Century Unity Deny Catholicism Identical Present Day

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.”

War Certain Talent Judging Depends Difficulty Superiors Conquer Resolution Arrangements

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.”

Problem Political Certain Politics Simple Power Administration No Problem

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”

Men Said War Government Certain Nations Peace Lines Powerful Leader Generations Ideals Essence Democrat Gifted Very Powerful Absolutely Nothing Aristocracy Plutocracy

Book:The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

“It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.”

Ends Seems Certain Vietnam Bloody Vietnam War Stalemate

Book:The challenges of change

Source: The challenges of change

“It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.”

People Ifs Whole Certain Religion Secret Intimacy

Book:Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

Source: Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

“My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.”

Men Mean War Certain Support Saws Conditions Waste Gun Foolish Experiments Aviation Lions Wasting Time Rifles Air Power Caliber Airpower

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

Said Done Shows Certain Effort Design Practise Courtiers Nonchalance

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”

Ifs Humans Doe Use Seems Action Certain Novel Dangerous Cost All Things Universal Rough Steers Artistry Effortless Practise Reefs Human Actions Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.”

Ifs Mean Certain Girl Interest Poor Rich Arms Achievement Mark Links Sympathy That Girl Badges Mean Girls

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.”

Wells Stills Country Play Age Certain Entertaining Cartoon Foreign Countries Brackets

Author:Walter Lantz

“I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.”

People Success Certain Found Average Fifty Great People

Author:Steve Jobs

“Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.”

World Moving Certain Wonder Wonder Of The World

Book:Essays Biographical and Chemical

Source: Essays Biographical and Chemical

“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.”

People Way May Certain Order Taken Victory Difficulty Luck Meetings Defeat Factors Avoiding Neglected Bad Luck Expeditions Precaution Foreseen

Book:The South Pole

Source: The South Pole

“Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.”

Thinking Mean Certain Laughing Losing Being Yourself Sense Of Humor Childishness

Author:Walt Disney

“I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.”

Believe Children Certain Talking Don't Believe Talking Down

Author:Walt Disney

“The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.”

Knows Feels May Moments Certain Strong Given Fashion Exciting Designer Proportion Historian Theorists Zeitgeist Sensors Pointlessness

Author:Jil Sander

“Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.”

Men Mean Made Self Certain Names Religious Degrees Constitution Checks Agents Employee Medieval Charlatans Deceiver

Author:Luther Burbank

“Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.”

Way Certain Sex Weakness Biology Strength And Weakness Employing

Author:Mark Morris

“Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.”

People States Running Certain Horse Racing Electric Utility Motor General Motors General Electric

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power.”

Humans Wells May Has Beens Law Certain Religious Results Technique Human Experience Religious Faith

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.”

Certain Amount Confusion Advertising Noses Really Great Bent Irritation Great Advertising

Author:Leo Burnett

“Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.”

Sometimes Certain Proof Decay

Book:The Age of Miracles

Source: The Age of Miracles

“If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!”

Ifs Knows Joy Certain Nature Animal One Thing Creation Creatures Filled Knowing God Goodwill Radiant Friendliness

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”

Ifs Government School Certain Struggle Atheism Conditions Duty Debate Operations

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Knowing Example Draws Fellows Animation Caricatures Hardy Laurels Laurel And Hardy

Author:Walt Disney

“The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.”

War Reason Use Government Certain Given President Asking Congress Ships Germany Zone American Life Submarines War Zones

Author:George W. Norris

“It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.”

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

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